This multi-room Tower suite — which includes a parlor and period furniture and has two balconies — is filled with rare photographs of the Unsinkable herself and pictures from her travels, and also has Titanic-related items, such as replicas of the china from the ship, with a menu from First Class. Rates start at $349 a night, according to the availability of the nights I tried to book online.

Brown visited Glenwood and the hotel after her husband, James Joseph Brown, struck it rich. She wouldn’t have been able to have a drink in the cozy bar, because it has since been remodeled, but it was fun to hang out around the elaborately decorated spaces and imagine a different, more formal way of life. Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt also slept here.

Two years ago, the Gold Hill Development Company bought three patented mining claims in the Bear Creek basin. The company’s principals, Ron Curry and Tom Chapman, claimed that portions of the popular summer Wasatch hiking trail would be closed to the public, threatening trespassing charges against transgressing hikers. They also threatened to post armed guards to defend their territory.

Last week, the San Miguel County Commissioners sent a note to Gold Hill Development, telling them to knock it off. An 1879 document predating the formation of San Miguel County proves the public’s right to access the entire Wasatch Trail.

Score one for the hikers. Who wants to take bets on whether the Gold Hill Development guys will cry foul and protest that the county commissioners are preventing them from being job creators, since they won’t need to be hiring rent-a-cops to guard their terrain?

Travel and OutWest editor Kyle Wagner grew up in Pittsburgh and lived in Lake County, Ill., and Naples, Fla., before moving to Denver in 1993, where she reviewed restaurants for Westword before moving to The Denver Post in 2002. She considers the best days to be those that involve her teenage daughters and doing something outside, preferably mountain biking or whitewater rafting.

Dean Krakel is a photo editor (primarily sports) at The Denver Post. A native of Wyoming, he has authored three books, "Season of the Elk," "Downriver" and "Krakel's West." An avid kayaker, rafter, mountain biker, trail runner, telemark skier and backpacker, Dean's outdoor adventures have taken him around the world.

Douglas Brown was raised about 30 miles west of Philadelphia in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he spent a lot of time running around in the woods and fields (where he hunted and explored), and in the ocean (where he surfed and stared at the horizon). Now he lives in Boulder and spends as much time hiking, running, skiing and boarding the High Country (and the Boulder foothills) as possible.

Ricardo Baca is the entertainment editor and pop music critic at The Denver Post, as well as the founder and executive editor of Reverb and the co-founder of The UMS. Happy days often involve at least one of these: whitewater rafting, snowshoeing, vintage Vespas, writing, camping, live music, road trips, snowboarding or four-wheeling.